Spaceballs

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mel Brooks, whose comedy hits include "The Producers" and "Blazing Saddles," is bringing his sci-fi spoof "Spaceballs" to television in cartoon form.

"Spaceballs: The Animated Series" will air on the G4 television network beginning next fall, it was announced Wednesday.

The 1987 film, which starred Brooks, Rick Moranis and John Candy, parodied "Star Wars" and other sci-fi movies. The new animated version will poke fun at blockbuster movies, reality TV, politics and pop culture.

Brooks, 80, will write the pilot episode and voice two of the
show's characters.

First of all - YAY! Second - Mel Brooks is 80?!? Good for him! Third - I used to be very out of it, and certainly I wasn't a Star Wars fan, so for a very long time, I thought I liked Star Wars, when really I liked Spaceballs. Still a Spaceballs fan, still not quite a Star Wars fan in the sense that the movie would be watched repeatedly (though Harrison Ford was quite sexy), and especially not the new ones. Star Trek can just forget it.